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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 552946" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Thanks, I do appreciate what you're saying, MWM, and agree with it. But the problem is not so much J's stage of development as the fact he is now spending all day supposedly learning things that he isn't learning at all! A waste of time and pointless, and ultimately discouraging for him I would have thought. He is just going to lag further and further behind. There is NO alternative school in my area, unless I were to take a train for a two hour return trip at enormous cost! </p><p>It's so clearly not the right time for him yet. </p><p>On the other hand it IS time for him to be home... I foolishly agreed to let him out to play with his older friend on the strict understanding he was back at 7. It is now 7.20... hey ho <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>PS, I think he's in the equivalent of what you call first grade, the youngest in his class as he won't be six until December (here they group children by year of birth).</p><p>PPS J appeared at about 7.21, beaming and saying "Am I on time, Mummy?"...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 552946, member: 11227"] Thanks, I do appreciate what you're saying, MWM, and agree with it. But the problem is not so much J's stage of development as the fact he is now spending all day supposedly learning things that he isn't learning at all! A waste of time and pointless, and ultimately discouraging for him I would have thought. He is just going to lag further and further behind. There is NO alternative school in my area, unless I were to take a train for a two hour return trip at enormous cost! It's so clearly not the right time for him yet. On the other hand it IS time for him to be home... I foolishly agreed to let him out to play with his older friend on the strict understanding he was back at 7. It is now 7.20... hey ho :) PS, I think he's in the equivalent of what you call first grade, the youngest in his class as he won't be six until December (here they group children by year of birth). PPS J appeared at about 7.21, beaming and saying "Am I on time, Mummy?"... [/QUOTE]
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